WASHINGTON: India is ready to take again its residents residing illegally in america, international minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has mentioned after assembly the highest diplomat of President Donald Trump’s new administration.
Jaishankar’s remarks got here after a gathering with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Tuesday (Jan 23) a day after Trump’s inauguration.
Trump issued a raft of executive orders this week that intention to clamp down on unlawful immigration and expedite his purpose of deporting hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
Jaishankar mentioned New Delhi was open to taking again undocumented Indians and was within the means of verifying these in america who might be deported to India.
“We wish Indian expertise and Indian expertise to have the utmost alternative on the international stage. On the similar time, we’re additionally very firmly against unlawful mobility and unlawful migration,” Jaishankar instructed a bunch of Indian reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
“So, with each nation, and the US isn’t any exception, we’ve all the time taken the view that if any of our residents are right here illegally, and if we’re certain that they’re our residents, we’ve all the time been open to their official return to India.”
Jaishankar was responding to a question on information reviews that India was working with the Trump administration on the deportation of round 18,000 Indians who’re both undocumented, or have overstayed their visas.
